I Celebrate Myself ~ 02

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	14 Feb 1989 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 3h 3min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:44:36. Live music before and after the discourse.
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video	Available, duration 3h 1min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1989 first edition : I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here (1990.05) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	CELEBR02

notes

synopsis: Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.

The sutra

When Daiten first came to Sekito, the master asked him, "What is your no-mind?"

Daiten replied, "The one who speaks is it."

At this, Sekito shouted, "Kwatz!" -- and left.

Ten days later, Daiten again came to Sekito and asked, "The last answer I said to you was not no-mind. What is no-mind?"

Sekito said, "Without raising eyebrows or moving eyeballs, bring your no-mind here."

Daiten said, "There is no no-mind to be brought."

Sekito said, "Basically, no-mind is. Why do you say no-mind is not? That is the wrong statement."

At this, Daiten was greatly enlightened.

Question 1

To us, are the words 'god' and 'no-mind' synonymous?

Question 2

Nietzsche made the observation that when "ordinary people" are in an unpleasant situation, "They always seek to get out of it with the smallest expenditure of intelligence."

Is God simply the first and last resort of a retarded humanity?

Question 3

Through my own recent encounter with death, I came across many stories of people from diverse cultures and of different religious backgrounds, who temporarily left their bodies and appeared to observers to be dead. They reported seeing a "being of light," which was totally loving and compassionate.

Could this "being of light" be the basis on which the concept of God has been created?

Question 4

Our beloved master, St. Bernard wrote: "Who is God? I can think of no better answer than: He who is."

Eckhart stated: "Thou must love God as not-god, not-spirit, not-person, not-image, but as he is -- a sheer, pure, absolute one, sundered from all twoness and in whom we must eternally sink from nothingness to nothingness."

If one substituted the pronoun 'he' with 'it', would not these two Christian mystics be speaking the language of Zen?

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